sys.platform documentation?

[Simon Forman]

Michiel Sikma wrote:
> Op 10-aug-2006, om 13:00 heeft Tim Golden het volgende geschreven:
>
> > Michiel Sikma wrote:
> >> Hello everybody,
> >>
> >> I was thinking about making a really insignificant addition to an
> >> online system that I'm making using Python: namely, I would like it
> >> to print the platform that it is running on in a human-readable
> >> manner. I was thinking of doing it like this:
> >
> > [... snip ...]
> >
> >> However, in order to populate the list of platforms, I need to know
> >> which strings sys.platform can return. I haven't found any
> >> documentation on this
> >
> > Not that this answers your question directly, but is the
> > platform module of any more use to you?
> >
> > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-platform.html
> >
> > TJG
> >
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>
> I didn't even know there was a platform module. Too bad that one also
> does not have documentation on possible values for common systems.
>
> It seems that uname() is the most resourceful function. So if I do this:
>
>  >>> import platform
>  >>> platform.uname()
> ('Darwin', 'imac-g5-van-michiel-sikma.local', '8.6.0', 'Darwin Kernel
> Version 8.6.0: Tue Mar  7 16:58:48 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.70.obj~1/
> RELEASE_PPC', 'Power Macintosh', 'powerpc')
>
> That's on Mac OS X 10.4.6. Indeed more useful.
>
> Michiel

It might be a good idea to write a brief script to print out
sys.platform, platform.platform(), platform.uname(), etc..  and post it
here for people to run and post their results.

Peace,
~Simon